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Cooperations

Depending on the case at hand it may be appropriate as well as in the area of legal advice to cooperate with locally based colleagues. For this purpose Prof. Dr. Sick Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH has contact to different national and international law firms which can be involved if necessary.

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Legal Notes

All information contained on this website has been carefully and exactly investigated. We shall, however, not assume any liability for the content and its correctness, its completeness and its up-to-dateness, even not towards third parties based on copying of the content of these pages which require a prior written approval by our company. For any publication of the content of this website and its various pages or any part thereof in the web as well as for setting corresponding links the prior written approval of our company and the establishment of a link to “Professor Dr. Sick Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH” shall be a prerequisite.

When a contact is established to our company by unencrypted email, the approval shall be assumed that any following correspondence may be conducted as well via unencrypted email.

Any information about the expiry of time-limits given to our company via E-Mail shall be invalid.

Any mandate shall become only effective with the explicit written acceptance by our company and not previously through the establishment of an electronic contact. Therefore a mandate with our company can neither be established by using this website nor by using any other electronic way in accordance with the ODR-Regulation of the EU (Art. 4 para 1 lit. e and g).

Taking this into consideration our company is neither obliged nor prepared to undertake an extrajudicial online dispute resolution in accordance with the ODR-Regulation of the EU by using the online platform provided by the EU.

In spite of careful control as regards content we shall not assume any liability for the content of external links. For the content of linked websites, their operators shall be exclusively responsible and liable.

If any reader of these webpages of Professor Dr. Sick Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH should be of the opinion that any of these webpages contains content entitling to serve a warning (Abmahnung), this reader is kindly asked to directly contact the managing director of the company (address see above) for a clarification of the issue before serving any warning. The Law Firm Professor Dr. Sick Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH draws the attention to the fact that in no way the company will either accept any such warning or the liability for the cost of involving an attorney-at law for the drafting and serving of such a warning, if no such direct contact was established beforehand for the clarification of the issue.

Declaration regarding Data Protection

Applicability

This declaration regarding data protection is intended to inform the users of this website according to the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the German Federal Data Protection Act and the German Federal Telemedia Act about the nature, the scope and the objective of processing individual-related data by the legal entity Prof. Dr. Sick Rechtsanwalts GmbH, Bahnhofstr. 24, D-46286 Dorsten, Telephone: +49-(0)2369-77954, Telefax: +49-(0)2369-984257, E-Mail: Dr.Sick(at)t-online.de which runs this website.

The operator of this website takes the protection of your data extremely serious and handles your individual-related data on the basis of confidentiality and in accordance with the legal provisions. Your data are especially protected by the legal professional attorney-client privilege.

Please consider, however, that the transfer of data via internet may as a matter of principle have security gaps. A protection to its full extent against access by third parties is technically not feasible.

Access Data

The operator of this website or the provider of these webpages respectively gathers data about the access to the website and saves them as “server-logfiles”. This is necessary for the operation of the website. The following data are logged in this way:

• visited website
• time at the date of access
• quantity of data sent in byte
• used browser
• used operating system
• IP-address

The operator of the website reserves the right to subsequently check the server-logfiles if there is any specific indication for an illegal use.

There is no saving of information on the terminal equipment of the end-user and no access takes place on information already saved on the terminal equipment of the end-user.

Dealing with Individual-Related Data

The operator of the website processes your individual-related data only if this is permitted within the legal framework or if you agree with it.

Individual-related data are deemed to be all information which is able to determine your person and to be traced back to you – such as, but not limited to, your name, your email-address and telephone number.

Your data are processed for the acquisition and the implementation of a client relationship as well as for providing fact-bound information. Any use of your data in excess of that requires your explicit consent.

Dealing with Contact Data

If you should establish communication with the operator of the website by using the offered contact options or if you should hand-over to the operator of the website your business card, your individual-related data will be processed in order to be able to have recourse to it for the treatment of and the reply to your inquiry. Without your consent these data will not be passed on to any third party.

Period for Saving the Data

The individual-related data saved by the operator of the website are only saved as long as this is required for the completion of the purpose for which the data have been gathered and as long as this is required for any subsequent legal period of retention.

Rights of the Users

Based on your application (at least in textform) and after sufficient verification of your person you as user will receive free of charge information with regard to any individual-related data saved about you. As long as your request is not in contradiction with any legal obligation or justification for the retention of data, you have the right to get wrong data corrected, to a restriction of processing or to the deletion of your individual-related data. In addition to that and under the same preconditions you have the right to objection, to the transfer of your individual-related data as well as to a complaint at the controlling authority being in charge for data protection:

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf